I was hoping the recent update would fix my long-time problem of minion freezing while trying to load ESO addons, but not so. Now it freezes on "scan the following drives for supported games" before it shows any drives. Any ideas?

My guess since its stopping at the drive selection is that its encountering a problem when trying to list the available drives on your system. Unfortunately it looks like the application freezes before it can write an error to the minion0.log.

If you have Java8 installed on your mac we could try and run Minion from command line and see if we get any better errors?

Open up your terminal window and type the following:

Code:

java -version

If it says you are running 1.8.xxxx you should be good. Now type the following in the terminal:

Yeah Minion wont load with Java6 which seems like what your terminal is set to use. This is only an issue when trying to run Minion from command line. When you launch Minion from the application icon it uses its own bundled version of java so its not an issue there.

Thanks for posting this. This error is very helpful as it does indeed prove that Minion is having trouble pulling a drive list from your system. It looks to be choking on the parsing of the name of a drive, possibly the apostrophe in the name?

I'll get this over to our main Java guy to confirm and see how we can fix it.

Because the yellow single quotes are intended to be part of the XPATH-Query and should not be escaped.
Otherwise quotes are missing and this is a syntax error.
I guess, you replace single quotes in the whole query instead of the values only.

Thanks for your reply! That makes sense, but I'm a complete java/programming noob - if that last bit is indeed a suggestion for a possible fix, could you translate it into a "go to this file and change this" format?

I have Minion running through Java on macOS 10.13 and it STILL freezes looking for my drives. I have ESO installed on my external and Minion used to run just fine but now freezes no matter what I do. I'd love some kind of help.